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Pictures and images give more life to your blog posts, are more professional, and draw more attention from readers and browsers.
But have you ever been frustrated, wanting to use more images to illustrate your posts, but not wanting to spend the money on buying stock photos? Or, not having time to select them, download them, resize, them, upload them, etc? I know I have. Sometimes you can barely make time to write a post in the first place.
A new plugin launched by Crestock Creative Stock Photos may be the solution to this. This plugin will:
Give you a search interface which you can access through your Wordpress admin panel while you are writing posts. You will be able to search by keyword, for images to match your posts
- Inserting the images into your posts is as simple as drag-and-drop.
- The images are already sized to fit blogs – between 300 and 400 pixels. (Updated 4:25 pm 12 Oct - Note: you can resize the images to be smaller, by changing the width and height attributes in the html editor of your Wordpress “write post” area. )
- Give you access to advanced filtering options such as image orientation (portrait vrs landscape) or file type.
You can find out more, and access the plugin download page, at the following link:
Free Stock Images for Your Blog
I hope it’s useful!
- Anna
P.S. – I received an email notification about this plugin release this morning, and decided that I should write a post about it as soon as possible, even though I haven’t had time to answer all of my recent comments yet. If you left a comment, I haven’t forgotten you!
P.P.S. – This page contains affiliate links to Crestock Creative Stock Photos, but will only have effect if you decide to sign up for a Crestock account through my link and possibly one day buy some stock photos as well. I am not sure if I am required by the FTC to tell you this with every single affiliate link, 
but for now, why not. It does seem kind of corny doesn’t it?
Personally I prefer to add all of my images manually since I like to change the size and sometimes also crop some parts of the image. This looks like a handy plugin though, but doesn’t 400px sound a bit small to be highest possible?
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Oh – silly me, I should have mentioned. You can change your size easily, just by changing the width and height attributes in the html editor where you write your post.
The image on this post was inserted using this plugin, but it is sized at about 3/4 it’s original size.
Al right. It was the part with “between 300 and 400 pixels” I got on my mind. Noticed you added a update after it now.
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Hey this looks pretty cool, especially handy for niche blogs where you just need to grab an image quickly.
I tried something like this a while back that was a firefox plugin called zemanta, I had to stop using it as I realized it was pulling some illegal images. But this does not seem to cause that issue.
Thanks for the heads up.
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Well this is certainly handy!! Thanks Anna!
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No doubt the plugin is really awesome but instead of mannually setting the size it’s a bit irritating.
If you blog with Window live write then why you need the plugin for photo?
Window live does all the settings by clicking the tabs etc..
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@Surender – with any stock photo or image plugin you sometimes have to change the size. I don’t use a lot of Windows Live Writer plugins (just Zemanta) because I would need to establish which could be rusted. I use both Zemanta and this plugin now, as it gives me more options. One thing I like about this plugin is that the photos all come from photographers who have opted in to allow their images to be used. There is no need to worry about legalities. But, you certainly don’t have to use it if you don’t want to!
@Jenny – You’re welcome
Hope you like it.
@Forest – I also use Zemanta, but I try to be careful at looking at the image attributes to make sure they say something like “public domain” and not “may be fair use” !!
I agree, this plugin does give one more piece of mind, as in this case, the photographers have agreed to allow their images to be used for this. I think it was a brilliant idea!
thanks for highlighting this, is there an email newsletter you subscribe to with updates for this kind of thing? I have been fustrated with images for ages now so this is exactly what i’ve been looking for. In-fact i’ve avoided images until now for exactly this reason but will get this plugin installed today – cheers!
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Hi Tom, I am glad you will be able to use this. I’ve started using it and found it extremely helpful.
You can subscribe to this blog at http://feedproxy.google.com/ResidualStreamsOfIncome and to my newsletter (form on the sidebar), so you will be informed of future posts and be able to receive email updates from me as well (if I ever send out a newsletter, lol).
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This is a great concept. I’ve taken to making special notations on the images that I use in my San Diego real estate blog to let people know that they are free to use the pictures as stock photography of San Diego. I hope that my photos will show up in the Wordpress plugin.
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Thanks for the tip, and I agree with your point that photo hunting as part of the blog writing process. Depending on the post topic, it sometimes takes a good deal of browsing to come up with a picture that fits the bill.
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Hi Anna, thnks for the tips to get pictures for the blog, without them it looks a bit plain, especially with a ‘frugal’ design like mine.
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Thanks for providing this information.
This plugin is very helpful for me.
Finally a truly useful plugin. I struggle to find images for my blog and then there is always the issue of who has the rights to use them.
Hey that’s great, it means now we can upload all those premium pictures to our blog without anybody’s permission, this will really save up my time, else I have to work with Photoshop and spend my huge time on it.
I’m certainly going to be taking a look at this. I currently use the Photo Dropper Wordpress Plugin that pulls in Flickr photos but I have found some of the results to be limited.
Thanks for sharing,
Karl
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This is a truly useful plugin! This will make it easier for me to put pics on my posts but without spending more time.
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Thanks for the tip!
I like to search at Flickr and Photobucket for images and then giving credit to the photo link.
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Hey Anna thanks for sharing it, now i can really put up all those premium photos in my website and save my time that i was wasting to design it from Photoshop
Yey, this is really helpful for Niche Blogs, and its relaxing point that those images will be legal to use anywhere, thanks for sharing it, Now i just just need to grab an image quickly.
yeah i m sure this will help me to add into my Niche blogs, i was looking for such Legal pics that i can put up into my blog or elsewhere so that i can really save up my time for designing arts in Photoshop.
Thanks for this awesome info. Its a new features of wordpress for me. I will try it.
hi, My question some different , I want to be able to make pictures and add effects a bit like stars and flower and trees and clip art like things to it. I know there must be some good ones out there so can you help.
Blog can look much expressive and informative when we use particular picture for it. The good news is that new WordPress Plugin, offer free stock photographs for Blogs.
it is always worthy to upload all those free but premium images and not to spend money on them, again it is time saving since you do not need spend time on drawing arts in Photoshop
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Nobody like to spend money buying stock photos especially when we get the stock for free of cost. Crestock Creative Stock Photos can help for free photo stock.
@Moshe – Glad to know this will come in handy
Love it. We are trying to consistently blog on our site, and I always have a hard time finding good photos on Google images. Thanks for the plugin tip!
These photos are really useful for our blogs and i use tem to make my blogs better.
Wow thanks! I was really having a hard time on where to find free stock photos. Thanks again
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Nice plugin provided by you in this post till now i was adding the image manually but now here i got perfect solution.
Nice plugin. Will help me in future.
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wow, this is awesome, thanks for sharing this, i can really get HD picture for free, i will share this with my friends too who want to add for their websites.
i never liked using stock photos, i actually use to scan them back in teh days with the stock booklets, but ya i rather take my own images and use them, but thats just me
Thats auctually pretty cool. Thanks for sharing!
Anna, this is a really cool idea. You could not be more correct. Often, it takes me as long to put photos on my blog as it does to write the content. I am going to give this a shot and, hopefully, it will be a huge time saver. Thanks for the heads up!
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I have several wordpress blogs I could use this for, thanks.
Thanks for the plugin
Great Plugin. This will be very useful for some of my Wordpress projects.
Thanks.
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Same problem for me, if I’m looking for special photos you always have the problem of licenses and copyright. So I decided to create the photos myself – some time ago. So I invested in camera eqiuipment – a little smaller one than shown on your photo
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nice plugin… i will take this…
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Its an opportunity that a person can avail himself with an easy pace of work. Thanks Anna for sharing the link as well as informative post.
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One picture is equal to thousand words..nice tips..thanks for sharing!!!
This plugin is very nice and really a big time save for frequent bloggers. I’m Using it and it’s really nice.. Thanks Anna
This looks like a plugin that I may benefit from, as I am currently spending around a dollar a picture, and that is for each post that I put on my blogs, that dollar a picture adds up pretty quick.
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This looks really good. How’s it working for people who have used it for awhile? Another commenter said they had trouble with Zemanta and illegal use. Anyone having any problems like that? If not I think I’ll give this one a try.
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